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Giles Masters
2nd Attorney General of the
Dominion of New England
In office
April 1687 – August 1687
Appointed byEdmund Andros
Preceded byBenjamin Bullivant
Succeeded byJames Graham
2nd Clerk of the Superior Court of the
Dominion of New England
In office
April 1687 – August 1687
Preceded byBenjamin Bullivant
Succeeded byJames Graham
Personal details
DiedFebruary 29, 1688
Coat of Arms of Giles Masters

Giles Masters was appointed as the second Attorney General of the Dominion of New England on the 30 of August, 1687 and the first under the reign of Sir Edmund Andros. His service as Attorney General expired no earlier than August 25, 1687.

Masters was sworn in as an attorney in 1686. He was described as “not sympathetic toward our people”, and he was known as "King's Attorney". He reportedly had a relative named "Katherine Masters".

Giles Masters died on February 29, 1688.

References

  1. ^ Massachusetts. General Court; Gifford, Stephen Nye; Marden, Geo A. (George Augustus); McLaughlin, Edward A.; Clapp, E. Herbert; Sleeper, George T.; Coolidge, Henry D. (Henry Dingley); Kimball, James W.; Stowe, William (1858). A manual for the use of the General Court. State Library of Massachusetts. Boston : William White.
  2. Washburn, Emory (1840). Sketches of the Judicial History of Massachusetts from 1630 to the Revolution in 1775. C.C. Little and J. Brown.
  3. Warren, Charles (1908). History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America. Lewis Publishing Company.
  4. Davis, William Thomas (1895). Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Vol. 1. Boston: The Boston History Company. p. 263.
  5. Warren, Charles (2013-07-04). A History of the American Bar. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-66841-6.
  6. ^ "Masters Coat of Arms Meanings and Family Crest Artwork". coadb.com: Coat of Arms, Surname Histories, Genealogy. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  7. Barnes, Viola Florence (1923). The Dominion of New England. Yale University Press.
  8. Old-Time New England 1931-01: Vol 21 Iss 3. Society for Preservation of New England. January 1931.
  9. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1852.
  10. randolph, edward (1898). piblications for the prince society.
Legal offices
Preceded byBenjamin Bullivant Attorney General of the
Dominion of New England
April 1687–August 1687 		Succeeded byJames Graham
Preceded byBenjamin Bullivant Clerk of the Superior Court of the
Dominion of New England
April 1687–August 1687 		Succeeded byJames Graham


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